AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD FirePro W7000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

AMD FirePro W7000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W7000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro W7000 +7%

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

FirePro W7000

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jun 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

20

-

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

2

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs Intel Arc B570

3

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

4

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

5

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7570 OEM

6

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

7

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

8

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI Radeon HD 4770

9

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA CMP 90HX

10

AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs ATI Radeon HD 3650

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster